Duckstein Rotblondes Weizen

Brewed by Holsten-Brauerei (Carlsberg)
Style: German Hefeweizen
Hamburg, Germany

Bottled at Monks Cafe, Stockholm. Pours out in a hazy amber colour with a small white foam. Metallic aroma with notes of butterscotch, caramel and toffee with small hints of banana esters. Medium-bodied with stale and dead flavours of metal and caramel, butter with weak notes of green bananas. Short metallic finish of banana and vegetables. Quite bad.

Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm. Hazy copper colour, minimal head. Soapy papery nose. medium sweet with clean mouthfeel and light-medium body. Cardboardy, stone dead malt character thinly covered if toffeeish banana extract and molasses. Neither refreshing nor rewarding. An unpleasant experience.

Bottle 50cl.
Hazy medium red orange color with a average, frothy, good lancing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, caramel, moderate yeasty, banana. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (310508)

Bottle. Pours hazy amber brown with a yellowish/light brown/beige head. Some lacing. Sweet malty aroma with slight notes of yeast. Flavour is sweet with dusty, wooden notes. Some slightly candy-like notes as well. Notes of yeast as it warms. Finish is dryish with candy/caramel notes. A bit too much carbonation. 26-07-08.

Bottle. Thanks to NosirIwont. Hazy amber brown colour. Aroma of wheat and malt with some yeast. Flavour of wheat and yeast with fruit, mild maltiness and mild spice.

Hazy orange coloured with a huge off white head. Aroma of fruits, bananas and spices. Very soft flavour of wheat and yeast. Dry finish.

Pours a hazy golden orange. Aromas of bread/clove/ and some fruit. Had a taste of yeasty bread with some spice.

Bottle. Caramel malt, banana, and berry aroma. Cloudy amber color with small head. Ripe banana, orange, raspberry and light malt flavor. Palate a bit light. Berry flavor unusual but flavor and body a bit too light.